"Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse."
Harjoittelijamme Venla Lehtinen kertoo Paikan päältä -blogissa tapahtumista ja tunnelmista Libanonissa. Linkki biossa.
Latest Treponema genome just dropped: it's 5,500 years old, was found in Colombia, and is a different branch of the evolutionary tree than the strains that cause today's syphilis/yaws/bejel. 🏺🧪
It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers.
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +)
Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.
I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm.
More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website:
www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture
FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع)
Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond.
Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇
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The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.
Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️
A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW
#Climate #Health
This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨
The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology
Deadline for applying: August 22nd
More information on the link below 👇
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"
Something lovely for your timeline!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼
Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.
This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989.
Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event.
Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border.
The Berlin Wall fell in October.
Quite a year.
Things are about to get a bit ancient.
I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.
A method for sex determination using peptides in enamel
Raman Spectroscopy Dataset of Permanent Human Teeth from a Historical Swiss Medical Collection🏺🧪
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Measurements of permanent teeth from an anonymized medical collection at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life. phys.org/news/2025-05...
